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Las Vegas is famous for gambling, hangovers and its mobster heritage. Next
month it will boast a more cerebral attraction: high-stakes chess.

Dozens of grandmasters will be among the hundreds of competitors at the
inaugural Millionaire Chess tournament in Sin City.

The prize fund, as the name suggests, is $1 million — the largest ever offered
at a chess competition — with the overall champion taking $100,000. The
organisers believe the cash can boost a game that has a 1,500-year history,
but which has yet to fulfil its potential.

Players will arrive in chauffer-driven limousines at the Planet Hollywood
resort on the

Openings pioneer
A consistent feature of the early games of grandmaster Mark Taimanov, who
sadly passed away last week at the age of 90, was his espousal of dynamic
systems that would have been anathema to the ancient champions of a
classical bent